Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala is witnessing the worst flood in over 100 years with incessant rains over the last 10 days claiming over 300 lives and leaving over three lakh homeless. However, as a welcome relief for the people of the flood-ravaged state, the weather department has withdrawn red alert for all districts for today.

The IMD in its forecast for the rain-battered state on Sunday said that rainfall will further decrease in course of the next five days. However, heavy rain is expected at one or two places in Idukki, Kannur and Kozhikode districts today.

Following this, the IMD has issued only a yellow warning for the three districts.

As rescue and relief operations continue in full swing, the Kerala government faces a difficult task in the coming weeks as several areas are reeling under food and power shortage and thousands of people are still awaiting evacuation.

On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted an aerial survey of some of the flood-affected areas of the state and announced an immediate aid of Rs 500 crore. However, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had demanded Rs 2,000 crore as emergency assistance and said as per the initial assessment, the total loss was pegged at Rs 19,512 crore.

05:00 pm: The NDRF conducted onsite medical assistance for the flood-affected people at Urakam in Thrissur on Saturday.

04:10 pm: The Rapid Action Force (RAF) in Palakkad's Erumachery build a temporary bridge to block the flooding water. Deputy Commandant, RAF Coimbatore, said,"After dam gates were opened, overflowing water damaged roads and entered the paddy fields. The bridge will help to stop the overflow."

03:40 pm: Addressing reporters, Air Marshal B Suresh, Southern Air Command said, "Today, total 288 boats are available at air force station. Many river-rafting volunteers have been brought from Rishikesh. As many as 26 helicopters are in operation."

02:40 pm: On Sunday morning, the Indian Naval Ship Deepak disembarked rations and drinking water in Kochi today.

02:15 pm: A community kitchen setup at Kochi naval base. The kitchen is currently serving nearly 7,000 people affected due to floods.

02:00 pm: The Indian Air Force reached out to people stranded on roof-tops and air dropped relief materials in flood-hit areas on Sunday.

01:49 pm: "58 of our NDRF teams are deployed across 8 districts of the state. They're carrying out rescue an evacuation work and extending medical emergency aids. Now that rain has subsided to some extent, our teams are being relocated partly to worst-affected areas," said NDRF DG.

01:46 pm: Union Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu said that a control room has been set up by Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) which is working around the clock to aid stranded/affected passengers due to flight cancellations in Cochin.

He also said a joint team comprising representatives from DGCA, Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Indian Navy carried out an inspection of Cochin Naval Base to check the feasibility of scheduled operations from there.

10:50 am: Infants and old people have been rescued by the Indian Army under Operation Madad. Rescue operations were carried out in 8 to 10 feet deep water.

10:42 am: People from Mumbai gathered essential commodities to be sent to flood victims.

10:40 am: At 10 am today, the water level in the Idukki reservoir was 2402.28 feet; water flow into Periyar river is 913 cusecs per hour. Two shutters have been closed.

10:32 am: Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has restored all its services to Kerala's Ernakulam, Kottayam, Thrissur, Palghat, Kozhikode, Kannur and Trivandrum. The first service will start at 4 pm to Trivandrum from Bengaluru. However, services to Kasaragod have not restored.

10:27 am: RAF team recovered one body from Nemmara landslide area in Palakkad district early morning. Deputy Commandant RAF Coimbatore unit said, "We have recovered total 10 bodies from the area. Landslides are still occurring in the area, it was a tough task to recover the bodies".

09:54 am: The IAS Officers Association of Andhra Pradesh to contribute one day salary of its members for Kerala floods fund.

08:44 am: “We started a helpline on August 16. We have 3 rescue numbers,” says Anbodu Kochi member Girish S Pradeep.

Another member Saratha says, “We are closely associated with District Collector's team. We take requirements of callers & cater the same to respected departments.”

‘Anbodu Kochi’, a team of volunteers, has established collection centres to collect relief materials for Kerala flood victims. The team has also started a call centre to help victims; around 40 people are on mobile and laptops to receive calls and communicate callers' needs to the department concerned.

08:37 am: Rescue work underway at Thiruvilla, one of the worst affected places. The task force worked non-stop for 15 hours in heavy rains to evacuate 250 persons, out of whom several were sick and homeless.